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+# Deterministic Pushdown Automata
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+This is an general implementation of deterministic pushdown automata in Python.
+The DPDA base class is designed such that it is easy to derive any DPDA by defining the rule set.
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+I created this for the class "Theory of Computation" in Fall 2024.